I’ve been thinking a lot about friendships and bonding lately. It seems that it is of course shared experience that fuses such a relationship. And how do you make friendships last when there is...
Again with the 4-day weekends… I feel like I’ve been away forever! The hubs has officially been gone now for one week and a day… just 40 days to go! I have to again sing the praises...
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by veget...
Makanyane Safari Lodge & Luxury Resort is “situated on private land within the magnificent 75,000 hectare malaria-free Madikwe Game Reserve”. Ethical dilemmas aside, this place is stu...
Ever since February I’ve had a bit of a shift in my eating habits. After the binge that is the holiday season and a semester of classes that interfered with my exercise I reluctantly got on the...
So I have been trying to “tune my instrument” with a bit more regularity. I decided to use an old photograph as my inspiration, my mother and sister circa 1976. I ended up framing the dra...
This wrap up is a little late, but I feel like my long weekend is just ending. The last four days have been the longest days we’ve experienced in forever. We crammed in so much before B finally...
“Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.” ― John Steinbeck
The hubs leaves in just under a week now; so my brain is full of lists and such. I’ll be taking a long weekend though to help him pack spend time together. And that means my weekend starts toni...
This is a thought provoking (and short!) TED talk video by Eli Pariser about an ever increasing insulated on-line experience. Watching it made me recall two different articles (1 & 2) reminding m...
Boiled crawfish, potatoes, corn, and homemade ice cream. Delicious!
“Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.” ― Leonard Cohen
I am totally smitten with succulents right now. I have mentioned before my inability to sustain anything green beyond a week; thus succulents are right in my wheelhouse as they can survive longer tha...
I can’t stop listening to the emotionally charged music from Austin, Texas based Balmorhea (pronounced bal-more-ay). It has been the perfect soundtrack for all my mixed emotions as of late (wit...
A weekend of gerunds: running, grilling, painting, sketching…watching the hubs wrap up the semester! His final project will be presented tonight; and then he will officially be a 3rd year archi...
“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implante...
Last fall I challenged myself and signed up for a 10 week drawing class (at a local art college). Drawing was something I always did as a child, particularly when spending days and weekends at my Gra...
We made this on Saturday (thanks to Brad’s boss) and we absolutely loved it. I wasn’t sure what to expect, so I was needless-to-say, pleasantly surprised when this medley of flavors melte...
I love reading magazines. But my wallet, not so much. (That is to say, magazine subscriptions are wonderful gifts *hint, hint*!) If I wasn’t on a strict pre-travel budget, I would definitely pi...
a new recipe // a new craft
*a renewal of a favorite series
“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Helen Keller
I am completely taken with the work of The Sketching Backpacker, Robert A. Alejandro. What a wonderful way to preserve a memory (rather than snapping a photo)! See more of his travelogues here.
What is it about a little balcony that seems so idealistic? I sure enjoyed ours in Spain (the several we had!) There seems to be something that draws me to the idea of having a little space carved ou...
A few weeks ago, while on a picnic, I kept myself occupied by making my phone cord a bit more colorful. We have quite a few cords floating around and I have on several occasions grabbed two (or none)...
The hubs continued working on his final project, and I really have no idea what I did. The days just flew by! So excited to have completed this post using only my phone. The image (with text) too. I ...
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” — John Kenneth Galbraith [Let Love i...
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